Don’t judge a book by it’s cover—years ago I had the most angelic looking child in my class, smart as a whip—and I swear on a stack of Bibles, demon possessed...he would go off on other students for no reason, throwing desks over his head at them...cursing at them with language that would make a sailor blush, and guess what I was told by admin?
Ignore it. He’d been classified ‘special ed’ due to his behavioral problems and legally I couldn’t do *ANYTHING* to try to correct his behavior. Put up with that crap for half a year, until finally his parents had him institutionalized—the mom was pregnant and he would draw pictures of him stabbing the baby to death and make statements about all the horrible ways he planned to kill it after it was born—when he started saying he was going to cut it out of the mom, they locked him up. Order was restored to my classroom, finally, but those other students in my class were the ones who suffered because of his behavior.
Give the teachers the benefit of the doubt—until you hear their side of the story, you just never know.
Unfortunately, in today’s modern public education, the last group I would give a benefit of a doubt to are the teachers, especially teachers who thought this was “ok”.
Incredible. This past semester I was a substitute teacher, and I was startled to find high school kids using the most vile language towards me and other students, or in casual conversation. Sometimes they seemed shocked that I dsent them out of class. One student cursed at me, I sent him to the office, and he was back in my class the next day. I have no idea if anything happened to him at all.